                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SALE OF TREES (§ 10.1-113)

For the purpose of managing Departmental lands or maintaining the production of
forest products in Departmental lands, the Director, upon the recommendation of
the State Forester, may designate and appraise trees to be cut under the
principles of scientific forest management, and may sell them for not less than
their appraised value. When the appraised value of the trees to be sold is more
than $50,000, the Director, before selling them, shall receive bids, after
notice by publication once a week for two weeks in two newspapers of general
circulation; but the Director shall have the right to reject any and all bids
and to readvertise for bids. The proceeds arising from the sale of the timber
and trees from state park lands shall be paid into the State Park Conservation
Resources Fund established in subsection A of § 10.1-202. The proceeds arising
from the sale of the timber and trees from natural area preserves owned by the
Department in fee simple shall be paid into the Natural Area Preservation Fund
established in § 10.1-215.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 891; 2003, cc. 79, 89; 2007, c. 158.